A nonprofit founded by Stockton Vice Mayor Jason Lee has been awarded $12.4 million in conditional state funding to build a youth behavioral health center in Stockton.
The grant was awarded to the Hollywood Cares Foundation by the California Department of Health Care Services through the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program, a state initiative that aims to expand behavioral health treatment capacity and strengthen community-based care across California.
The funding will support construction of the I Am Ready Stockton Youth Center, a planned behavioral health campus on South Center Street that will provide services for young people and families…